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commonly feature the use of improvised weapons such as
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1546:"Life Hack: Using the Machete as an Effective Weapon"
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during 1524 and 1525, a 1542 fencing book edited by
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1528:"5 of History's Most Notorious Unsolved Ax Murders"
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1737:. 12 February 2013 – via www.reuters.com.
1672:"Man jailed for Handsworth meat cleaver attack"
1362:"WWI's Weapon of Doom Was An Entrenching Tool?"
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1379:"The Lawyers reports annotated, Volume 21"
1259:"The Lawyers reports annotated, Volume 21"
1056:Veilleux-Lepage, Yannick (29 March 2017).
878:"Baseball bat as used was a deadly weapon"
233:Gardening and agricultural tools, such as
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1717:"Whips in Combat | The Bullwhip FAQ"
1460:"9 officers hurt in east Jerusalem riots"
1345:"Clara Phillips was never one to mask..."
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1322:"Weapon of choice: Fire extinguisher"
1008:Ratcliffe, Michael J. (August 2008).
857:from the original on 3 February 2013.
847:"Defensive Use of Improvised Weapons"
474:described fencing techniques using a
282:Livestock herding equipment, such as
1954:Shillelagh: The Irish Fighting Stick
1927:"Escrima - The Filipino Martial Art"
1817:Hogan, Johnathan (5 December 2018).
1560:"Medieval Men - Medieval-Period.com"
1343:Rasmussen, Cecilia (8 August 1994).
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1168:"The Assassination of Leon Trotsky"
930:Sturcke, James (14 December 2009).
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1695:. University of California Press.
1652:Ruderman, Wendy (31 August 2012).
1438:"Attack happened in Kings Furlong"
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949:Banker, Andy (12 December 2012).
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845:Zorn, Steve (3 March 2005).
686:Improvised explosive devices
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292:Maritime equipment, such as
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1458:Hadad, Shmulik (May 2010).
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2623:South African Border War
2405:Second Sino-Japanese War
1952:Hurley, John W. (2007).
969:Terre Haute Tribune-Star
2613:Portuguese Colonial War
1417:. London. February 2010
1290:"FM 3-25.150 Chapter 7"
1172:Encyclopedia Britannica
774:Soviet Foreign Minister
535:and spiked wristbands.
515:, sometimes with harsh
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1294:www.globalsecurity.org
823:Vehicle-ramming attack
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781:Molotov bread baskets
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2094:30 July 2020 at the
2058:www.timesnownews.com
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1225:. 19 September 2021.
1156:. 22 September 2021.
624:Improvised artillery
529:September 11 attacks
461:Irish stick fighting
453:western martial arts
433:Chinese martial arts
417:Spanish colonization
355:Modern factory-made
70:conventional weapons
2716:Russo-Ukrainian War
2653:Dominican Civil War
2628:Cambodian Civil War
2589:First Indochina War
2060:. 27 February 2020.
2026:"What Can I Bring?"
1823:Idaho State Journal
1564:medieval-period.com
1491:. 27 November 2019.
1489:www.mentalfloss.com
1134:. 12 September 2001
659:Trench raiding club
610:Improvised firearms
437:Korean martial arts
324:Musical instruments
317:Furniture, such as
3030:Improvised weapons
2706:Russo-Georgian War
2648:Lebanese Civil War
2618:Rhodesian Bush War
2235:Mexican Revolution
2220:American Civil War
2210:War of the Pacific
2200:Napoleonic Warfare
1915:. 12 October 2020.
1658:The New York Times
1595:The New York Times
1368:. 23 January 2022.
1084:"Imitating Turner"
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1963:978-1-4303-2570-3
1956:. Caravat Press.
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1570:on 12 August 2017
1348:Los Angeles Times
1245:. 3 October 1993.
1242:Los Angeles Times
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770:Spanish Civil War
539:Makeshift weapons
359:, US Forces issue
208:entrenching tools
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